LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 26 November 1946, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Personal . Mr/and Mrs. Colin Mortimer left yesterday for Napier, where Mr Mortimer.. will be* going into -business with his father. | Miss* . B, . Roach, of . Dannevirke spent -the weekend at Shannon with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A Roach, Stout Street. Mr. and Mrs. I. Ray, of Palmerston North, were'the guests of Mr land Mrs. Thomson, of Nathan Ter- • race, for the weekend. Visitors to Shannon for the R.S.A i victory reunion on Saturday evening iiicluded Messrs. W. Luif, Ror j Williams, Len Morris, A. Cooper, W Jones and George Tynan, all oi ; Wellington, Mr. F. X. Thurston, oi | Plimmerton, and Mr. B; J. Jacobs iDominion president of the R.S.A. ■ j An Interesting Fact I It is not generally known thai ' the Shannon-Foxton highway is I two chains wide. Maybe. it is no1 ' this wide all the way today, but it is in places, and it was surveyed foi | that width. This fact was comj mented upon at the recent meet- : ing of the Moutoa Drainage Boarc ,by Mr. W. H. Smith, of Moutoa IMr. Smith said that his father was 'employed on 'the survey, and the i road had been made that wide because it was anticipated that a ; tramway would run between Shannon and Foxton. At Dr. Wall's ' ccrner a township was laid out, bui these sections were subsequentlj acquired by the late Dr. Wall and | addecl to his property.